Semantic Designs: World-Class Tools to Enhance Large, Complex Systems

Since 1995, Semantic Designs, Inc., a privately- held corporation headquartered in
Austin, Texas,
has provided world-class analysis, enhancement and transformation of large and complex software systems
to Enterprises, Integrators and Government organizations. Solutions also include Tools, Bundles and Suites,
Services for Enterprises and ISVís, and System Integrator partnering for dozens of languages, databases and schema.
All of SD's activities are enabled by highly automated tools based on SD's core technology,
the DMS® Software Reengineering Toolkit,
an extremely generalized software analysis and mass code change engine.

SDís Commercially available products increase quality and productivity through formatting, test coverage,
execution profiling, metrics, and source browsing. Obfuscation solutions for over 20 languages increase the
security of intellectual property by scrambling source files while allowing applications to run normally.
Services enable code remediation and enhancements for Enterprise-class businesses and cost-effective system
development for ISVís. Partnering with select System Integrators helps deliver exceptional results for
large and/or legacy systems.

Become part of the SD Community and see why, ďThe Truth is in the Details.Ēô

Semantic Designs' History

In October 1995, founders Dr. Ira Baxter and
Dr. Christopher Pidgeon established Semantic Designs
as a privately held Texas corporation after winning a grant of $1.9 M from the Advanced Technology Program
of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to conduct research on the
Design Maintenance System (DMS) vision. Funded research completed in 1999, and DMS has become a proven
foundation to automate the deep analysis, enhancement and transformation of numerous large and complex
software systems.

Semantic Designs has also leveraged the scope of DMS to rapidly build derivative commercial and custom tools
as well as services and deploying them worldwide. The company remains committed to providing automated
solutions for large-scale, complex software systems and advancing the state of the art for improving
application system security and quality, while lowering maintenance costs.

Semantic Designs' People

Ira D. Baxter, Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Ira Baxter co-founded of Semantic Designs as
Chief Technical Officer. He took the role of CEO in 2003 after the loss of his co-founder,
Dr. Christopher Pidgeon. Ira has over 35 years of hardware and software development, management and
consulting experience, including Schlumberger, Microelectronics Computing Consortium (MCC) Rockwell
Automation and Software Dynamics. He holds two patents and has chaired sections for several Software
Engineering and Development Conferences. Ira received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of
California at Irvine in 1990.

Dr. Michael Mehlich, Principal Engineer

Dr. Michael Mehlich joined Semantic Designs in 1996.
As Principal Engineer, he has significantly contributed to creating and enhancing the company's core
technology, the Design Maintenance System, or DMS. Michael is accomplished in numerous commercial applications
for DMS and is responsible for system robustness as well as numerous function and language additions
Author of numerous Software Engineering papers, Dr. Mehlich received his Dr. Rer. Nat. in Computer Science
in 1995 from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

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Semantic Designs- Our Goal

To enable our customers to produce and maintain timely, robust and economical software by providing world-class Software Engineering tools using deep language and problem knowledge with high degrees of automation.